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The Cambodian women rising up to protect their communal land

Lucy Purdy — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:00:08 +0000

Photographer Sophal Neak captures Chan Kimcheng swimming in a threatened lake she was instrumental in saving

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The photo series celebrating the people cultivating hope, from soil to sea

Positive News — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 11:39:15 +0000

A new arts project pairs photographers and poets with farmers, fishers and food growers to tell powerful stories of regeneration

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Plastic with a past: traceable pots made from reclaimed fishing nets

Robin Eveleigh — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 07:00:20 +0000

Discarded fishing gear is getting a second life as elegant, origami-inspired planters – thanks to a Scottish design startup

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Resurgent tuna and rebounding elephants: the dogged conservation efforts bearing fruit

Martin Wright — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 07:00:46 +0000

When science meets with international co-operation, wildlife populations get a precious chance to recover

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Meet the ghost hunters: the volunteer divers cleaning up UK seas

Sam Haddad — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:55:38 +0000

Discarded fishing nets pose a grave threat to marine life. Our writer joins the volunteers who are determined to retrieve this ‘ghost gear’

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Food campaigners pull their fingers out to divert bycatch into local tummies

Robin Eveleigh — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 12:23:36 +0000

Schoolchildren are among those to have already sampled the results of the Plymouth Fish Finger Project

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From sketch to sea: diving into Wales’ underwater farming revolution

Jack Thompson — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:33:32 +0000

Its ‘underwater gardens’ echo a tradition of sustainably harvesting the local waters: we go beneath the waves at a Welsh community-owned, regenerative Welsh seafood farm

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Scientists accidentally discover ‘scallop discos’ as an eco-friendly fishing method

Robin Eveleigh — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 10:15:48 +0000

In a bizarre lightbulb moment, scientists have stumbled on a new way of catching scallops: underwater disco lights

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Marine biologists may have found a surprisingly low-tech solution to bycatch

Robin Eveleigh — Fri, 27 May 2022 11:00:01 +0000

Early trials of a new type of fishing net have revealed that porpoises largely avoided getting entangled in them

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Fighting for the future of wild fish

Oliver Balch — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 15:10:37 +0000

With Iceland’s wild salmon population under threat, two men are trying to protect them by campaigning against the mighty commercial fish farming industry. Slowly, they're beginning to change public opinion

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